206 quotes found
“Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.”
“It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.”
“Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.”
“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.”
“To be a man is precisely to be responsible.”
“Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self ...”
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
